Sheila Jackson Lee is one of the favorite targets of the conservative blogosphere, with the attacks running the gamut from her liberal politics to her flamboyant style.

But after the Houston Democrat revealed Friday that she had been battling breast cancer, something unusual happened.

No attacks.

A prayer of Thanksgiving

On this Sunday morning, I’d like to offer up a blog post written by one of her critics offering “a prayer of Thanksgiving on Sheila Jackson Lee’s behalf” after she declared Friday that she was now “cancer-free.”

“It is no secret that I do not particularly like the politics or personality of Representative Sheila Jackson Lee, and that I consider her ‘service’ in Congress to be a disgrace to this state and this nation,” the Rhymes with Right blog wrote. “That said, I am truly thrilled to read this good news of hers and to offer up the above mentioned prayer in response.”

The blogger, a social studies teacher in Seabrook named Greg, emphasized the difference between political disagreements and personal spite.

“I’ve said it many times — there’s politics and there’s real life,” he wrote. “Let’s not let our many disagreements on the former interfere with our ability to have kind words and thoughts about each other on the former. And in that spirit I wish her many long years of health and life, whatever our respective political differences may be.”